Sorry ... custom apps.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Shellman, David <dave.shell...@te.com>wrote:

> ** **
> Susan,
>
> Custom apps or OTB?  The ITSM suite uses locale to determine the view to
> be displayed in the appropriate language.  Not sure about menus.
>
> Dave
>
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> arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *Susan Palmer
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:03 PM
> *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
> *Subject:* Remedy in Chinese
>
> **
> Hi Everyone,
>
> We have an office in Shenzhen, China that began 3 years ago and at that
> time the staff was small and we were able to hire English speaking/writing
> staff.  No problem.
>
> Now that our business is growing there we need to accommodate non-English
> speaking staff.  Also basic things like installations and invoicing require
> exact Chinese spelling and some of that is getting lost in the Chinese to
> English to Chinese translations causing issues.
>
> I know that the 'Simplified Chinese' language set is supported but I
> interpret that to mean in field labels.
>
> Does anyone have experience with adding a second language to an existing
> Remedy application?  This would include menus and selection field values.
> Did you have to run two sets of menu and somehow activate the one you want
> dependent on say your locale?  What did you do for selection field values.
>
> That leads to database issues and how that is all stored too.
>
> The idea is a flavor of follow the sun for support.  If you're in Europe
> or US you see English, if you're in China you see Chinese.  How does that
> happen?  I figure the locale takes care of the labels although I'm not
> really sure how that happens but what about field contents?
>
> Any experiences you've had would be helpful to know.
>
> I appreciate your feedback.
>
> Susan
>
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>
>
> *Susan Palmer***
>
> *Enterprise Remedy Developer and Administrator*
>
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